- Systems Change in a Permacrisis (Bridie Ashrowan)
- How can we build collective intelligence in order to work with complex challenges and achieve long-term change? (Leah Black and Suzy Glass)
- What does a Human Rights and Equalities first approach look like in a cost of living crisis?
(Aer Nicholson Clasby, Suki Wan and Alice Tucker) - Staff Wellbeing in a Cost of Living Crisis (Deborah Clark and Catriona Windle)
- Your Space… (Ian Brooke)
1. Systems Change in a Permacrisis
As the cost of living crisis impacts our communities and our sector, we urgently need system change.
Change that ensures initiatives like ‘warm and welcoming places’ don’t become the new normal.
This discussion will focus on how we can work together to build a stronger voice for our sector. A voice that can help influence change that makes a real difference to the lives of people in our City – building thriving communities.
This session will be led by Bridie Ashrowan (EVOC)
2. How can we build collective intelligence in order to work with complex challenges and achieve long-term change?
This session will link ideas around the competencies required to do long-term work; the developing Regenerative Futures Fund (an idea to create a 10-year unrestricted fund for long-term work towards ending poverty and net zero communities); and collective intelligence approaches to participatory decision-making in funding. What kind of funding models do we need to make long-term transformational change, and to shift power in funding?
Session Leaders: Leah Black (Regenerative Futures Fund), Suzy Glass (Freelance Producer) and Talat Yaqoob (Freelance Consultant).
3. What does a Human Rights and Equalities first approach look like in a cost of living crisis?
A conversation about what taking a human rights and equalities first approach could look like for the community and voluntary sector, with examples of how it can be applied to the cost of living crisis. How can you bring human rights and equalities into the way you work, develop as an organisation and create an inclusive culture that extends out to the way you deliver your services? The session will focus on:
- Human rights and equalities – what are they, and why do they matter?
- What a human rights and equalities first approach is and why it is relevant to you, your organisation and the cost of living crisis.
- How to apply a human rights and equalities first approach and what steps you can take now.
Session Leaders: Aer Nicholson Clasby, Suki Wan and Alice Tucker (THRE: Third Sector Human Rights and Equalities Project)
4. Staff Wellbeing in a Cost of Living Crisis
In our sector, we’re really focused on the people we’re offering support to or the changes we’re aiming to bring about so it’s easy to let staff wellbeing slip down the list of priorities. The work can be enormously demanding and require deep resilience so it’s important we remember that supporting others isn’t sustainable if we aren’t supporting ourselves.
In this session we’ll focus on how to utilise the strengths we already have within our sector to ensure wellbeing is an actionable priority for all of us. In an open discussion we will explore areas such as staff peer support, uniting a hybrid workforce and learning and development.
If the weather is dry we may even look to fit in a short winter wellbeing walk.
Session Leaders: Deborah Clark (EVOC) Catriona Windle (Chairperson of Edinburgh Community Health Forum, Manager at Health All Round)
5. Your Space…
This informal networking session is your space and your time. It is a great opportunity to meet people, make new connections, and discuss ‘a menu’ of conversation topics linked to the cost of living crisis.
If you would like to submit a conversation topic please do so when submitting your breakout session choice.
Session Leaders: Ian Brooke (EVOC) and other members of the EVOC staff team.
